Car-door fastener.



W. C. & C. R. MARTINEAU.

CAR DOOR FASTENEIL APPLICATION FILED APR.21,)915.

1,165,993. Patented De0.28,1915.

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UNITED @lhdlfifl PATENT WILLIAM C. MARTINEAU AND CLARENCE R. MARTINEAU, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

CAR-DOOR. FASTENEB.

Application filed Apri121, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. MAR- TINEAU and CLARENCE R. MARTINEAU, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Albany, Albany county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Door Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to devices or fixtures for car or other sliding doors adapted to bolt the door firmly in place and to pro vide an attachment for a lock or seal to prevent opening of the door by improper persons.

The object of the invention is to provide simple, durable, efficient and easily securable means to this end.

In the drawings, which represent a preferred form of our device, Figure 1 is a top plan view, and Fig. 2, a front elevation thereof; Figs. 3 and 4 are partial sectional views through planes 3-3 and d- L, Fig. 2.

11 designates the wall of a car or other structure, having a door opening 12 and a stile 13, the opening being closable by a sliding door 1 1, supported in any wellknown or desired manner. To door 14 is bolted a hasp-plate 15 comprising a strap member 16 and an annular, forwardly projecting flange 17. Pivoted on flange 17 and firmly held in place by a washer 18 and bolt 19, is a hasp 20 comprising an eye 21, a bent arm 22, ending in a downwardly turned hook member 23, and having an outwardly projecting, horizontal flange 24 pierced by two apertures 25 and 26. Bolted to wall 11 and embracing stile 13 is a combined striker, door guide and keeper portion 27 comprising a striker flange 28, an angular flange member 29 at the opposite side of stile 1.3, a front plate 31 formed with a laterally extended door guiding flange 32 and a horizontal flange 33, apertured at 34, 35 and formed with a recess 36 in its upper face. On stile 13 is bolted a vertical rod 37 the lower end of which is set into recess 36 and supported by flange 33. Sliding on rod 37 is a bolt 38 having a laterally offset eye 39 embracing the rod and an offset flange 4L0 apertured at 41. A seal or lock 42 is shown in Fig. 2.

The operation of the device will be readily Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23, 1915.

Serial No. 22,802.

understood from an inspection of the drawings.

It will be seen that door 14: is guided at the end of its sliding movement by flange 32 and abuts against flange 28. Bolt 38 is then raised on rod 37, so as to be out of the way, and hasp 2O turned on pivot 17 from its non-operative position, shown in dotted lines Fig. 2, to its operative position, see Figs. 1, 2 and 3, in which hook member 23 engages over flange 33 and in which apertures 25, 26 in flange 2 1 of the hasp register vertically with apertures 3-1 1, 35 in flange 33 of keeper portion 27. Bolt 38 is then permitted to drop through apertures 25 and 34:, which brings aperture 11 in flange 40 into vertical registry with apertures 26 and 35. The shackle of a lock or seal. 42 is then passed through apertures 41, 26 and 35, thus locking together hasp, keeper and bolt by a. single operation.

It is obvious that certain mechanical changes may be made in the form of our device without departing from the invention.

l/Vhat we claim is:

1. In a car door fixture, a keeper formed with a horizontal flange provided with a bolt-receiving aperture; a hasp also formed with a horizontal flange adapted to be superposed upon said keeper flange when said hasp is in operative position and provided with a bolt-receiving aperture adapted to vertical registry with said keeper aperture; a suitably supported bolt adapted to pass through both said apertures and having an offset head provided with an aperture, one of said horizontal flanges being provided with a second aperture in vertical registry with the aperture in said bolt head, whereby the shackle of a seal or look may be passed through both said last-named apertures to prevent the withdrawal of said bolt.

2. In a car door fixture, a keeper formed with a horizontal flange provided with two apertures; a hasp also formed with a horizontal flange having two apertures adapted to vertical registry with the apertures in said keeper flange when said hasp is in operative position; and with a hook member adapted to engage over said keeper flange; a vertical rod secured above said keeper; and a bolt having an offset eye riding on said rod, said bolt being adapted to pass through said three last-named apertures to through one of said apertures in said keeper prevent the Withdrawal of said bolt.

and in said hasp and formed with an offset WILLIAM G. MARTIN EAU. head having an aperture adapted to verti- CLARENCE R. MARTIN EAU. cal registry with the other of said apertures lVitnesses:

in said keeper and in said hasp, whereby the GEO. L. COOPER,

shackle of a seal or look may be passed J. D. FITZPATRIOK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. U. 

